(SEATTLE, WA) -- Are you saving for your retirement? If you are working, you are. You put 4.1% of your paycheck into Social Security, through the FICA tax.

Now consider if we had no Social Security.

The vast majority of workers would be understandably worried about paying the bills on their current income, their co-insurance for health coverage, their mortgage, not to mention saving for college for their kids. Retirement savings? That can be put off another day, month, year, decade.Read more...

If you are one of the 750,000 homeowners here in the Puget Sound area and across the country whose home was illegally foreclosed upon in the ever-so-slick MERS robo-signing foreclosure scam by some shadow entity that did not even hold clear title to your residence Ė but never told you that - you may be less then thrilled with the sound of $2,000.Read more...

It was once said that some online marketing companies are amassing the kinds of dossiers on individuals that ďthe Nazis could have only dreamed of.Ē

The concern has always been, where is this all headed?

Year after year online companies get more and more intrusive into the personal habits of millions of Americans (and millions elsewhere in the world) who are now living just as much in the virtual world as they do in the bricks and mortar world.Read more...

The Wall Street Journal reported on January 19 that the Obama administration was pushing heavily to get the 50 state attorneys general to agree to a settlement with five major banks in the "robo-signing" scandal.

The scandal involves employees signing names not their own, under titles they did not really have, attesting to the veracity of documents they had not really reviewed.Read more...